Kroger Shopping

I packed up little face for some Wednesday shopping. We had two stores to hit to get some great deals I was going to try to stay within budget this week. Sad to say again I did not make it by $10.00. I was trying to cut back to $40.00, since I spent so much on diapers last week. When I made the diaper purchase I had enough diapers to last for a month and it was a great deal. Check out my Target trip here.

This week we went to Sprouts and Kroger for our major grocery shopping. Sprouts is a small mostly organic and fresh food store. It is similar to Whole Foods just not as big. The prices on produce are almost as good as Aldi. And I enjoy shopping there better than shopping at Aldi.

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Here is how I did at Sprouts & Kroger:

Bulk Bins:
0.96 lb Coconut Almond Granola @ $2.49 lb

             -Final $2.39
2.94 lbs Brown Rice @ $0.69 lb

-Final $2.03

Produce:
1.38 lb Braeburn Apples @ $0.88 lb

 -Final $1.21

1.67 lb Jona Gold Apples @ $0.88 lb

 -Final $1.47

1.36 lb White Onions @ $0.49 lb

-Final  $0.67

3 Cucumbers @ $.69 each

            -Final $2.07

Altogether I spent $9.64 for around 10 pounds of food.  I also received a bag credit of $0.05 for four bags used for a total of $0.20 off my order. I love to spend less than a dollar a pound for food.

I still don’t know the layout of the Kroger store all that well. I shopped at Walmart for 10 years and since I started couponing I am using Kroger. What I think makes sense to me where an item should be it is on the opposite side of the store. It still takes me a while to shop, and little face gets impatient because I have to think a while to put a deal together or we are going all around the store looking for something.

At Kroger I had some really great deals I researched from Southern Savers and Bluegrass Savers. This is my best shopping trip so far. I almost hit the 70% saved mark which is my goal. However, I did discover that my Kroger will no longer allow you to stack ecoupons with regular coupons. I told them I would have to put back some items, since I was going to be over my budget for the week. So they did it for me for this trip, but they will not do it again. Darn I was really getting the hang of this thing.

I did get a $5.00 gift card off my next trip by purchasing the 4 boxes of cereal. I also received a catalina for $0.50 off my next trip for purchasing Dole fruit. At Cellfire yesterday I also won $0.50 off my next Kroger trip. So I am starting off next week $6.00 ahead of budget. I can’t possibly go over next week with a $6.00 cushion. We will see.

Here is how I did:

(2) Milks $2.19
(1) Kroger Bread $1.19

(1) Corn Chex $2.79 - $0.75/1 Q Chex Cereal Printable

            -Final $2.09

(1) Wheat Chex $2.79 - $0.75/1 eQ Kroger, $0.75/1 Q Chex Cereal Printable

            -Final $1.29

(2) Apple Cinnamon Cheerios $3.31 – 2 0.75/1 eQ Kroger, 2 $0.75/1 Q Cheerios Cereal Printable

            -Final $1.81 each

(2) Dole Pineapple $1.00 - $0.50/2 Q Dole Pineapple or Fruit SS 4/10 doubled

            -Final $0.50 each

(6) Dole Tropical Fruit  $1.00 – 3 $0.50/2 Q Dole Pineapple or Fruit SS 4/10 doubled

            -Final $0.50 each

(6) Birds Eye SteamFresh Veg. $1.00 – 3 $1.00/3 Q Birds Eye Veg. SS 3/20

            -Final $0.66 each

(1) International Delight Creamer pint $1.69 - $0.55/1 eQ Kroger, $0.55/1 Q Int. Del. SS 4/10

            -Final $0.59

(2) Heinz Vinegar $1.50 – 2 $0.50/1 Q Printable doubled

            -Final $0.50 each

(4) Kens Salad Dressing 16oz $1.66 – 3 $1.00/1 Q Kens 16oz SS03/20

            -Final $0.66 each and one $1.66 (I accidentally picked up an extra)

(3) Huggies Wipes 70+ count $1.99 – 3 $1/1 Huggies wipes 45 count or larger

            -Final $0.99 each

(2) Pampers Kandoo Wipes $1.39 – 2 $1/1 Kandoo product PG 04/03

            -Final $0.39 – I had one more coupon, but they only had 2

(1) Gillette Antiperspirant $4.69 - $1/1 eQ Kroger, $3/1 catalina

            -Final $0.69

(1) Gillette Body wash $3.99 – BO Antiperspirant GO Body wash Free PG 04/03

            -Final FREE

(2) Oral B toothbrush $2.00 – $2/1 eQ Kroger, 2 $2/2 PG 04/03

            -Final FREE +$2.00 Money Maker

Altogether I spent $50.38 on $132.12 worth of food and health items this week.

I didn’t know I had a $2.00 money maker on the toothbrushes. That was a surprise once I got home. Little face was not happy when I was picking out the dressings. I really wanted the lite version in Ranch and Bleu Cheese, but they did not carry those. So I accidentally placed another one in my cart while I was deciding.

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